Analytics is used in a higher education environment to analyze various collected data points to gain insight and make informed decisions about complex issues. Specific areas include academic analytics, business intelligence, and learning analytics. EDUCAUSE offers a wide range of resources on this expansive topic in various formats. Recent EDUCAUSE Resources on Analytics include;

Ethics, Big Data, and Analytics: A Model for Application, EDUCAUSE Review, May 2013. This report takes an in-depth look at the current state of analytics in higher education, outlines the challenges and barriers to using analytics, and assesses progress in analytics, providing recommendations for development.

Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics, EDUCAUSE Report, February 2013. This report provides information about how leading institutions in higher education andvendors are building capacity in analytics to improve student success.

Analytics Today: Getting Smarter About Emerging Technology, Diverse Students, and the Completion Challenge, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, October 19, 2011. This video provides an overview of the increased use of blended learning, mobile learning, gaming, personal learning networks, augmented reality in higher education. And asks pointedly that If we want these technology "power tools" to have a real and lasting impact on the challenges of college completion, then anchoring these efforts in on-target analytics that serve not only policy but also core practice will be essential.

Analytics Rising: IT's Role in Informing Higher Education Decisions, ECAR Research Bulletin, May 2011. This ECAR research bulletin describes how CIOs and other IT leaders, through a focus on analytics, can work together with other institutional groups to provide clear and meaningful information for decision makers across all institutional levels.